Medical Center and Health System Facts

Figures are for fiscal year 2008 unless otherwise indicated.

A 2008 U.S.News & World Report ranking placed Duke University Medical Center among the top eight of 170 qualifying medical centers, and only one of 19 to make the "Honor Roll."

For the ninth year running, Triangle residents rated Duke University Medical Center the best-quality hospital in the Durham area -- earning Duke a 2008-2009 Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation.

Annual operating revenues, Duke University Health System: $1.9 billion

Medical Center campus size: 95 buildings located on 210 acres

Gross square feet: 8 million

Faculty and Staff Facts

Duke is the largest employer in Durham County and the second-largest private non-manufacturing employer in North Carolina. Duke University Health System has approximately 12,905 full-time employees, while the academic Duke University Medical Center has 8,808 full-time employees, and Duke University has 8,113 employees for a total of 29,826.

About 13 percent of Duke University Medical Center employees have an MD or PhD degree (or both).

Included among them are:

• 891 "house staff" physicians working as residents and fellows;
• 1,469 faculty in the clinical programs;
• 194 faculty in the basic sciences.

Education Facts

All figures are current as of October 2008 unless otherwise noted.

In 2008 U.S.News & World Report ranked the Duke University School of Medicine among the top six programs in the United States.

For the class entering September 2008, the School of Medicine received 5,200 applications for 100 slots.

U.S.News & World Report ranked Duke's physician assistant program as number two in the United States for 2008.

Duke's doctor of physical therapy program was ranked 13th in the nation in a 2008 U.S.News & World Report ranking.

Student Facts

School of Medicine MD Program: 404

PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 488

School of Nursing: 487

• Accelerated BSN: 139
• MSN degree: 283
• Post-Master's certificate: 28
• DNP degree: 26
• PhD degree: 11

Medical and Health Professions:

• Doctor of Physical Therapy: 169
• Physician Assistant (MHS degree): 121
• Pathologist's Assistant (MHS degree): 16
• Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 2
• Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 115
• Ophthalmic Medical Technician Program: 12

Graduate Medical Education: 944 residents and fellows

Continuing Medical Education: In fiscal year 2008, the School of Medicine's Office of Continuing Medical Education sponsored 314 activities attended by 37,621 physicians and 17,262 non-physicians.

Research Facts

All figures are current as of October 2008 unless otherwise noted.

Duke University Medical Center comprises one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country, with more than $600 million in sponsored research in 2007.

It is ranked among the top five American medical schools in National Institutes of Health grant funding, with its research funding growing by 11 percent in fiscal year 2006 -- the highest rate of growth among the nation's 20 top-ranked institutions (most recent data available).

With highly respected research programs in areas ranging from cancer and heart disease to the basic sciences and health policy research, Duke is home to the nation's largest and oldest academic clinical research organization -- the Duke Clinical Research Institute -- and to the $200-million Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, a campus-wide initiative to address the broad challenges of the genomic revolution.

About 15 percent of Duke students are enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program, which leads to both a MD and a PhD in one of the basic sciences. Created to train highly qualified students as physician-scientists, the program has graduated more MD-PhDs than any such program in the country and is highly regarded nationally.

Patient Care Facts

Figures are for Duke University Health System (including Duke University Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke HomeCare & Hospice, Duke University Affiliated Physicians) for fiscal year 2008 unless otherwise indicated.

Inpatient admissions: 61,827

Outpatient visits: 1,488,278

Number of surgical procedures, including endoscopy: 78,656

Figures are for Duke University Hospital, hospital-based clinics, and DUMC outpatient locations for fiscal year 2008 unless otherwise indicated.

Inpatients: 41,193

Outpatient visits: 921,018

Average adult daily census (without observation): 667

Total inpatient days (including normal newborns): 249,888

Emergency Department visits: 61,277

Patients transported by LifeFlight (excludes ground): 796

Number of surgical operations: 34,066

Hospital lab procedures: 4,392,997

Babies delivered: 3,173

Cardiac catheterizations (adult/pediatric/mobile): 5,360

Cardiac catheterizations in mobile units: 299

Angioplasties: 1,087

Open heart surgeries:

• Adult: 872
• Pediatric: 116
• Thoracic: 1,169

Organ transplants:

• Kidney: 105
• Pancreas: 20
• Lung: 69
• Heart: 44
• Liver: 29

Charity Care and Community Care Facts

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